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Hi there,
We all know the loss of brilliant mind, Matt S Trout. I am
still recovering from it. RIP, my friend.
Every time I come across this: *1983 - 2025*, it reminds
me of my birth year *1975*.
MetaCPAN ( https://metacpan.org ) seems to be running smoothly as shared in
this post (
https://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2025/07/metacpan-running-really-well-than
ks.html ) by Dean. Anyone interested in the work done can
find the documentation here (
https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-k8s/issues/154 ).
The recently concluded The Perl and Raku Conference 2025
videos are now public on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/-at-YAPCNA ). Of
all of them, one of my favourites is the talk about Dancer2 (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DpCTj-lT2Y40 ) by Jason
Crome.
As you know, we had the development release Perl
v5.42.0-RC1 on June 25, 2025. In case you missed
it, here is the delta page (
https://metacpan.org/release/CONTRA/perl-5.42.0-RC1/view/pod/perldelta.pod
) listing all the changes in the release. A week later, we had the
maintenance release Perl v5.42.0 on July 3,
2025. Again, we have a dedicated delta page (
https://metacpan.org/release/BOOK/perl-5.42.0/view/pod/perldelta.pod ) for
this release.
What's your favourite change in this release?
For me, I liked the support for lexical method in the
experimental class feature. I'm aware, there are many other importants
improvements and bug fixes as well. A big Thank You, to
Perl Development Team.
What's next in the pipeline?
Well, if you ask me, I'm still waiting for support for
roles in the experimental class feature. I've heard some
whispers that it's in the pipeline. I'm glad it has not been pushed aside.
I'm hoping the next stable release will bring good news, fingers crossed!
What are you working on these days?
I'm mostly working on AWS related services these days as
my day job revolves around them. I'm super excited to be working under the
guidance of Andrew Solomon from GeekUni (
https://geekuni.com ). Whenever I explore something new, I create a public
post about my experience, viewing it through the lens of
Perl and Python.
It's not always about AWS, my last post was about Lexical
Method in Perl v5.42 (
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/lexical-method-v542 ). I know, it's
been nearly a month now but I'm currently working on a blog post about
AWS Lambda. My experience so far has been a bit mixed. The
native support for Perl in AWS Lambda is
not as robust as Python's. After spending a few nights on
it, I finally gave up. I'm happy creating lambda function in
Python and then calling them programatically from
Perl and Python.
The most fun part is when the lambda function is stored in an S3
bucket. Then there's another twist, using
APIGateway to call lambda function. I use
LocalStack (the free version) as a local platform.
Unfortunately, the free version doesn't have all the
features enabled, but it's still good enough to get my hand dirty.
My go-to CPAN module for all AWS related
services is Paws ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Paws ). I must admit, it's been
rock solid.
Apart from AWS, I'm also working on blog posts about
DBIC, ElasticSearch,
Caching and Serialisation in
Perl. Some are nearly finished, they just need a final
touch-up before going public. You can track all my experiments on my
personal blog page ( https://theweeklychallenge.org/blogs ).
I noticed a nee section titled "Sponsors" added to the
newsletter by Gabor. It did the trick for me and brought
in one additional sponsor last week, taking the total count to 35
sponsors. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank each and
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Clearly Capital
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Clear, idiomatic solutions. Effective demonstration of Raku's modern
features. Practical examples with immediate applicability.
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Capital Cleared
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delimiter selection and comprehensive test coverage.
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crunching words
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Capitalizing on Regular Expressions
https://github.com/MatthiasMuth/perlweeklychallenge-club/tree/muthm-330/c=
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easy to follow. The rationale for using regular expressions is well
explained and the commentary on loop construction demonstrates good code
readability practices.
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https://packy.dardan.com/b/Yf
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anyone looking to level up their one-liner skills. A bit of reinforcement
with edge-case handling, explanatory tests, and clarity amplifies the
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Digitless Capitals
http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge/330
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intended. Clever way to remove the last character from the matched
non-digit portion.
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Clear Title
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/07/The_Weekly_Challenge_330__Clea=
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Clearly the Title
https://dev.to/simongreennet/weekly-challenge-clearly-the-title-4bom
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https://khanate.co.uk/weekly/330.html
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Goes beyond coding to dissect problem ambiguities, rare in challenge
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Hi there,
We all know the loss of brilliant mind, Matt S Trout. I am
still recovering from it. RIP, my friend.
Every time I come across this: *1983 - 2025*, it reminds
me of my birth year *1975*.
MetaCPAN ( https://metacpan.org ) seems to be running smoothly as shared in
this post (
https://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2025/07/metacpan-running-really-well-than
ks.html ) by Dean. Anyone interested in the work done can
find the documentation here (
https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-k8s/issues/154 ).
The recently concluded The Perl and Raku Conference 2025
videos are now public on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/-at-YAPCNA ). Of
all of them, one of my favourites is the talk about Dancer2 (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DpCTj-lT2Y40 ) by Jason
Crome.
As you know, we had the development release Perl
v5.42.0-RC1 on June 25, 2025. In case you missed
it, here is the delta page (
https://metacpan.org/release/CONTRA/perl-5.42.0-RC1/view/pod/perldelta.pod
) listing all the changes in the release. A week later, we had the
maintenance release Perl v5.42.0 on July 3,
2025. Again, we have a dedicated delta page (
https://metacpan.org/release/BOOK/perl-5.42.0/view/pod/perldelta.pod ) for
this release.
What's your favourite change in this release?
For me, I liked the support for lexical method in the
experimental class feature. I'm aware, there are many other importants
improvements and bug fixes as well. A big Thank You, to
Perl Development Team.
What's next in the pipeline?
Well, if you ask me, I'm still waiting for support for
roles in the experimental class feature. I've heard some
whispers that it's in the pipeline. I'm glad it has not been pushed aside.
I'm hoping the next stable release will bring good news, fingers crossed!
What are you working on these days?
I'm mostly working on AWS related services these days as
my day job revolves around them. I'm super excited to be working under the
guidance of Andrew Solomon from GeekUni (
https://geekuni.com ). Whenever I explore something new, I create a public
post about my experience, viewing it through the lens of
Perl and Python.
It's not always about AWS, my last post was about Lexical
Method in Perl v5.42 (
https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/lexical-method-v542 ). I know, it's
been nearly a month now but I'm currently working on a blog post about
AWS Lambda. My experience so far has been a bit mixed. The
native support for Perl in AWS Lambda is
not as robust as Python's. After spending a few nights on
it, I finally gave up. I'm happy creating lambda function in
Python and then calling them programatically from
Perl and Python.
The most fun part is when the lambda function is stored in an S3
bucket. Then there's another twist, using
APIGateway to call lambda function. I use
LocalStack (the free version) as a local platform.
Unfortunately, the free version doesn't have all the
features enabled, but it's still good enough to get my hand dirty.
My go-to CPAN module for all AWS related
services is Paws ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Paws ). I must admit, it's been
rock solid.
Apart from AWS, I'm also working on blog posts about
DBIC, ElasticSearch,
Caching and Serialisation in
Perl. Some are nearly finished, they just need a final
touch-up before going public. You can track all my experiments on my
personal blog page ( https://theweeklychallenge.org/blogs ).
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newsletter by Gabor. It did the trick for me and brought
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sponsors. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank each and
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Capital Cleared
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